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Collection vs Favorite - What's the difference?

collection | favorite |

As nouns the difference between collection and favorite

is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while favorite is preferred one, one with special favor.

As an adjective favorite is

preferred.

As a verb favorite is

.

collection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
  • *
    • Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
  • * (William Whewell)
    • Collections of moisture.
  • * Dunglison
    • A purulent collection .
  • Multiple related objects associated as a group.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
  • The activity of collecting.
  • (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
  • A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
  • (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  • * (John Milton)
    • We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
  • (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  • A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.

    • Derived terms

    * collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collection

    favorite

    English

    (wikipedia favorite)

    Alternative forms

    * (British English) favourite

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Preferred.
    • That is my favorite flavor of ice cream. I'd eat it daily if I could.

    Antonyms

    * (preferred) (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Preferred one, one with special favor
    • The teacher's favorite always went first.
  • Expected or most probable to win.
    • He's the favorite , he'll probably be elected.

    Synonyms

    * (expected to win) top dog

    Antonyms

    * (preferred) (l)

    Related terms

    * favor * favour * favorable

    Verb

    (favorit)
  • (Internet) To bookmark.
  • (Internet) To add to one's list of favorites on a website that allows users to compile such lists.

    • Antonyms

    * (add to a list of favorites) (l) ----